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Post by bhk on Nov 11, 2006 5:01:31 GMT -5
Could someone please translate the days on the above timetables in English?
Thanks,
Bruce
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Post by pelikan on Nov 11, 2006 8:49:26 GMT -5
Hi Bruce, The only two I recognize are Sabado( Saturday) and Domingo ( Sunday). My high school Spanish was the Mexican dialect. The others were Lunes-Mon. Martes-Tues. Miercoles-Wed. Jueves-Thurs. Viernes-Fri. South American Spanish must be radically different. Hope this is a little help.
Regards, Lance
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Post by dalecaruso on Nov 11, 2006 9:37:04 GMT -5
Ture ... as you know there are a few ... ONLY a few. Just finished the "milk run" .... Coari to Manaus with a scheduled stop at Codajaz. Yesterday I finished "populating" the two hundred mile section of river between Coari and Manaus with some 55 ships of various sizes (heading in both directions) - at first I thought perhaps I had over populated the river, but the Amazon definately sucks them right up! Later today I will make a seeding run between Coari and Tefe and finish that portion of the river ,,, traffic in both directions ... and that should pretty well warp up the bulk of the Tefe - Manaus section of the package. Then its on to the section of the route that takes us from Tefe to Leticia, Columbia. However, that most like won't begin until after Thanksgiving as I am leaving on the 14th for 8 days in hospital. (three days of tests and another wonderful five day session of HDCT (High Dose Chemotherapy) - this is my second different type of HDCT ... third chemo regimen overal - one regular and now two High Dose .... oh, how exciting this has all been, LOLOL. Dale
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Post by dalecaruso on Nov 11, 2006 9:40:45 GMT -5
As to translating the Days on the schedule .... My guess is that it is writen and printed in Portugese. This might be of some help... www.freedict.com/onldict/por.html
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Post by bhk on Nov 11, 2006 16:29:35 GMT -5
Thanks, chaps. Just after I posted that I realized that all I really needed was for one day to be translated! The rest of the week would just fall into place. I've created a flight - using the timetable above provided by Dale - for Flight 059, Belem to Manaus departing at 6:00 AM and with several intermediate stops, and am flying it now in a Chance Vought 0SU Kingfisher, having set the date as 1949. I look forward to seeing your package published, Dale........this is one B-I-G river!! Bruce
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Post by windrunner on Nov 12, 2006 4:17:25 GMT -5
Cheers Dale!
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Post by lholmes on Nov 12, 2006 23:08:22 GMT -5
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Post by bhk on Nov 13, 2006 2:27:12 GMT -5
I agree...a wonderful movie, Lee. There was also another great advenure movie set in "the Amazon", which featured army ants and some bloke's determination to prevent them from eating his property. I read the story as a child and remember seeing the movie version much later...can't for the life of me think of it.....hang about......AHAA! Thank you, Mr Google! It was "Leiningen Versus The Ants"........... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants(Funny how some little things (Fitzcarraldo - building - jungle - Amazon) prompt long-forgotten memories. Thanks, Lee.) Bruce
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Post by dalecaruso on Nov 13, 2006 6:24:35 GMT -5
One of the things that amazed me about the river (or from the "gee, never thought of that before" catagory) is the fact that 1200 miles inland on the river, it is not unusla to see ocean going vessels.It is such a vast system and Brazil such a vast and still underdeveloped territory (or re-developed, if what the legends say are true, that the area was once home to very, very ancient cultures) In some respects, Brazil is much like Alaska and BC ... especially for pilots... as travel in the interior regions are either by boat or aircraft. (and bush pilots thought you had to freeze to be in the wilderness!) For the simmer .. what a great local for small airstrips in tiny villages, along the rivers (off the beaten route of the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers) - Lumbering camps, little pockets of development here and there (for "Golden Agers" - add Rubber plantations providing reason for travel and cargo hauling and for the early airlines, a means to connect the country's interior with rest of the world. Here is an intresting "gateway site to who flew there (early arilines of the region) www.edcoatescollection.com/ac5/ROW%20Civil%20A/restcivila.htmlOne in that group was - Syndicato Condor, who flew Junkers F-13, Focke Wulf FW 200 Condor, and the Junker Ju 52/3M aircraft. To quote one entry at the site... "When Syndicato Condor took delivery of two FW 200s in 1940 it made the governments of both Great Britain and the United States extremely nervous. Here was an aircraft which was easily convertible into a long range anti submarine patrol machine, not to mention its bombing capabilities. Although the US had not yet entered WW II (it would take Pearly Harbor to convince the pacifists in the New World to come to the aid of the "good guys") clearly the presence of FW 200s in the hemisphere could put the Panama Canal at risk. In the event, Brazil joined the Allies in 1942 and Syndicato Condor thought it prudent to change the name of the company to Servicos Aereos Cruzeiro do Sul, Ltda, generally known by its acronym SACSUL (or sometimes just plain Cruzerio). Well, tomorrow off to hospital for a week.. (but will stay in touch, as they have a dozen computers for patient use, with the forum) so today, I will take another flight up river from Fonte Boa to Jutai and "seed" it with a few more vessels so I have them going in both directions ... so the stretch of river between Manaus and Jutai will have now in the neighborhood of 90 or so vessels for "eye" candy. Going to Fly the PBY, my "private version" of the old PanAir aircraft... Since it only has 2D available for a panel and since I have yet to find one that really gives me a feel for the PBY's cockpit, I am using the panel from the S43 ... modified the main .bmp .. moving the post more to the center... I think it gives the forward view more of a Catalina look and feel. Dale
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Post by dalecaruso on Nov 13, 2006 6:37:19 GMT -5
Here is what I mean... I just think it looks a bit closer... Dale
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Post by bhk on Nov 14, 2006 1:10:04 GMT -5
Dale, I find the information in this thread most interesting, and entertaining. I do wish you well in your hospital stay and look forward to the day that you decide to publish your efforts on this project.
Incidentally, I bought Alphasim's PBY package and have been most pleased with it. If you are looking for something more refined and with a more realistic 3D and 2D cockpit then it may be of interest to you.
All the best. Bruce
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Post by 314clipper on Nov 14, 2006 10:13:02 GMT -5
Bruce is right --- if you're a PBY fan, you will be very pleased with the AlphaSim model. It has a very nice vc (cockpit only, no cabin), includes the PBY-5 (non-amphibious) and PBY-5A (amphibious) variants, and it flies great. Keith Giveans posted some nice screenshots of it on a thread here: mainescenery.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=genav&action=display&thread=1157083902I still have Mike Stone's PBY also, using Ken Mitchell's excellent PBY-5 panel, which includes interior 2d views, a flight engineer's panel, and a navigator's panel. Do a search at avsim.com for filename: pby5km_panel.zip Michael Vader also produced a nice PBY panel for FS2002 (works fine in FS2004), available at flightsim.com: cp1.zip Cheers, Wayne
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Post by bhk on Nov 14, 2006 15:20:20 GMT -5
Last night I recreated the PAA route from Miami down to Montevideo & Buenos Aires. (This is based on the 1933 PAA route-map posted in another thread).
Flight starts at the seaplane base in Miami at dawn on a November day in 1939 and the aircraft I'm using - as there is no Consolidated Commodore FSim model - is the 4-engined Sikorsky S-40...or you could use the excellent S-43 by Bill Lyons.
I can recommend the downloading and installation of the recently published "meshx_" series of files for all of South America. These are freeware and are available from both Flightsim and Avsim.
If anyone is interested I can publish this little package or send you the zip direct by email.
Bruce.
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Post by Admin on Nov 14, 2006 22:10:50 GMT -5
If anyone is interested I can publish this little package or send you the zip direct by email. Bruce. We can put it here if you want Bruce, though you might get more takers at the big archives
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Post by bhk on Nov 14, 2006 23:25:05 GMT -5
Thanks, Tom.
I would normally pop it up to both Avsim and Flightsim, the same as all the others, but thought I might offer the FLT WX and PLN files here first as I probably won't finish the trimmings (documentation etc) until the weekend.
Bruce
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